Embellishment
[ɪm'belɪʃmənt] or [ɪm'bɛlɪʃmənt]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a superfluous ornament.
(noun.) elaboration of an interpretation by the use of decorative (sometimes fictitious) detail; 'the mystery has been heightened by many embellishments in subsequent retellings'.
埃塞尔手打--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The act of adorning, or the state of being adorned; adornment.
(n.) That which adds beauty or elegance; ornament; decoration; as, pictorial embellishments.
錄入:凯文
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Decoration, ornament, adornment.
手打:洛葛仙妮
例句/造句/用法:
- Its smell and its color are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- The chisel had made three or four of these attempts at embellishment over his nose, but had given them up without an effort to smooth them off. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- Tellson's (they said) wanted no elbow-room, Tellson's wanted no light, Tellson's wanted no embellishment. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- The difficulty is to detach the framework of fact--of absolute undeniable fact--from the embellishments of theorists and reporters. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- They gossiped together over the corpse, related anecdotes, with embellishments of her lingering decline, and its real or supposed cause. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Pray glance at some of these churches and their embellishments, and see whether the Government is doing a righteous thing or not. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Thus set forth, with the additional embellishments of a very little tail to his coat, and a yawning gulf at his waistband, Sloppy stood confessed. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
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